Aya Chacar
Aya Chacar is a professor of business in the United States. She is currently the Ingersoll Rand Chaired Professor at Florida International University.Biography
Chacar was born in Lebanon where she studied engineering at the Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth. She earned a master's in business administration degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Chacar completed her doctoral studies in Strategy and Organization at UCLA. In 2003, she became an assistant professor at Florida International University.
Chacar has studied and written several papers about Major League Baseball, where she has studied how players are traded and how that has affected the business. She has also studied effects of industry factors on innovation in the chemical industry.
In 2012, she was named to the chaired position of the Ingersoll Rand Professorship in International Business at FIU. She is currently the Chairwoman and a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management starting her 5-year term in 2014.
